JANIS JOPLIN
Joplin in Concert
Текст песни Ball & Chain

Ball & Chain

S-sitting down by my window,Oh, looking at the rain.S-sitting down by my window now now,All around I felt it,All I could see was the rain.Something grabbed a hold of me, honey,Felt to me honey like, lord, a ball and chain.Yeah! hey! you know what I mean,But it's way too heavy for you,You can't hold it tomorrow.

Say, whoa, whoa, honey, it can't beJust because I got to want your lovePlease please please please, whoa please, please.Whoa, honey it can't beJust because I got to need you daddy.Please don't you let me down, no, please, lord!Here you gone today, but I wanted to love you,I wanted to hold you, yeah, till the day I die,Till the day, till the day,Yeah! hey! hey! all right!

Say, whoa, whoa, honey this can't beNot anything I ever wanted from you daddyTell me now, now, now, now, oh, tell me now, yeah.I say, whoa, whoa, honey this can't beNo, no, no, no, no, no, no ... yeah yeah, hey!And I want someone that could tell me, tell me whyJust because I got to want your loveHoney, just because I got to need, need, need your loveI said I don't understand, honey, but I wanna chance to tryTry, try, try, try try try tryHoney when everybody in the world wants the same damn thingWhen everybody in the world will need the same lonely thingWhen I wanna work for your love, daddy.When I wanna try for your love, daddy.

I don't understand how come you're gone, man. I don't understand why half the world is still crying, man, when the other half of the world is still crying too, man, I can't get it together. iIf you got a cat for one day, man Ўє I mean, if you, say, say, if you want a cat for 365 days, right Ўє you ain't got him for 365 days, you got him for one day, man. well I tell you that one daN, better be your life, man. because, you know, you can say, oh man, you can cry about the other 364, man, but you're gonna lose that one day, man, and that's all you've got. you gotta call that, man. that's what it is, man. if you got it today you don't want it tomorrow, man, 'cause you don't need it, 'cause as a matter of fact, as we discovered in the train, tomorrow never happens, mT's all the same fucking day, man.